Bryan Turner | |
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Born | Bryan Stanley Turner 16 January 1945 [1] |
Nationality | British, Australian |
Occupation(s) | scholar, professor |
Title | Presidential Professor [2] |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Leeds |
Thesis | The Decline of Methodism [3] (1970 [3] ) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociology |
Sub-discipline | Sociology of religion |
Institutions | The Graduate Center,CUNY,University of Western Sydney [2] |
Bryan Stanley Turner (born 1945) is a British and Australian sociologist. He was born in January 1945 in Birmingham,England. Turner has held university appointments in England,Scotland,Australia,Germany,Holland,Singapore and the United States. He was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge (1998–2005) and Research Team Leader for the Religion Cluster at the Asian Research Institute,National University of Singapore (2005–2008). [4]
Turner is currently Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Institute for Religion,Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University. He is also faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology [5] at Yale University,Research Associate,GEMASS at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, [6] Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia [7] and Member of the American Sociological Research Association.
Turner attended Harborne Collegiate School for Boys and George Dixon Grammar School. He went on to the University of Leeds,where he completed a first class honours degree in Sociology in 1966. He received his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds in 1970 with a thesis titled "The Decline of Methodism:an analysis of religious commitment and organisation". He has received several honorary degrees recognising his contributions to Sociology:Doctor of Letters at Flinders University in 1987,Master of Arts at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and Doctor of Letters at the University of Cambridge in 2009.
Professor Turner's research interests include sociological theory,sociology of globalisation and religion,concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state,religious authority and electronic information,religious consumerism and youth cultures,human rights and religion,the human body,medical change,and religious cosmologies. [8]
Turner wrote his first book Weber and Islam [9] in 1974 and has since established an international reputation for his work on religion,Max Weber and comparative sociology. [10]
He is the founding editor of the journals:Body &Society (with Mike Featherstone), Citizenship Studies ,and Journal of Classical Sociology (with John O'Neill). He is also an editorial member of numerous journals including:British Journal of Sociology,European Journal of Social Theory,Contemporary Islam and Journal of Human Rights. [11]
He is the editor of two book series for Anthem Press:Key Issues in Modern Sociology and Tracts for Our Times;and also of Religion in Contemporary Asia for Routledge.
Years | Award or Recognition |
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1981 | Morris Ginsberg Fellow,London School of Economics,University of London. |
1987 | Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences [12] |
1987–1988 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorial Fellow,University of Bielefeld,Germany. |
1995 | Distinguished Visiting Professor,University of Helsinki,Finland. |
2002–2005 | Fellow,Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge,UK. |
2009 | Member,American Sociological Research Association. |
2009–2010 | Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College [13] |
2011 | Honorary Fellow of the Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences |
2015 | Max Planck Research Award [14] |
Year | Monographs |
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1974 | Weber and Islam. London:Routledge &Kegan Paul Ltd. |
1994 | Orientalism,Postmodernism and Globalism. London:Routledge. |
2004 | The New Medical Sociology. New York:Norton. |
2006 | Vulnerability and Human Rights. Penn State University Press |
2008 | Rights and Virtues. Political Essays on Citizenship and Social Justice. Oxford:Bardwell Press |
2008 | Body and Society. Explorations in Social Theory. London:Sage (third revised edition) |
2009 | Can we live forever? A sociological and moral inquiry. London:Anthem Press. |
2011 | Religion and Modern Society. Citizenship,Secularisation and the State. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. |
Year | Edited |
1990 | Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity. London:SAGE Publications. |
2006 | The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology . Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. |
2009 | The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Oxford:Blackwell-Wiley. |
2009 | The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies. London:Routledge. |
2010 | The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion. Oxford:Wiley-Blackwell. |
2010 | Secularization. (Four-Volume Set). UK:SAGE. |
2013 | The Sociology of Islam:Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner. (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir). UK:Ashgate. |
Year | Joint Authored Monographs |
2002 | June Edmunds and Bryan Turner. Generations,Culture and Society. UK:Open University Press. |
2010 | Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir,Alexius Pereira and Bryan Turner. Muslims in Singapore:Piety,Politics and Policies. Routledge:London. |
2010 | Bryan Turner and Habibul Khondker. Globalization East and West. SAGE:London. |
2014 | Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir and Bryan Turner. The Future of Singapore:Population,Society and the Nature of the State. Routledge:London. |
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